Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 579

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 3 Episode 49
18. Thorough Verification (2)
This morning, on the way to work.
The employees at the Hitman Simulator booth all shared the same thought.
‘Heh heh. Sweet deal.’
‘I’m clocking out early today.’
‘This’ll be easy.’
Yesterday had brought nothing but trials, but happiness always follows hardship.
Because they’d endured all the pain at once yesterday, today promised to be far more relaxed.
First, customer service would become much easier.
After all, there were no Challenge Points.
The number of gamers themselves would drop significantly.
‘Those damn Streamers won’t be here either.’
On top of that, no Streamers would show up.
Streamers only appeared when there was content worth broadcasting.
Would any Streamer really bother coming to a plain shooting game that offered no Challenge Points?
Heh heh. The employees couldn’t help but smile.
“Ah, just thinking about those camera-wielding guys not being here… it’s so refreshing. Right?”
“Yeah. Yeah. There’s really so much to worry about.”
Even for trivial matters, when Streamers arrived, cameras would start recording and broadcasting, and the booth employees would have that much more to worry about.
What if something misleading got caught on camera? What if a problem occurred and got exposed live on broadcast?
Small controversies often became major ones once video evidence existed.
If a famous game reviewer showed up, the employees would be on high alert.
“The reviewers have all come already. Now there’s really no chance of Streamers showing up.”
No reviewers, no Streamers, barely any gamers.
Now they could simply enjoy the rest of their business trip in peace.
Yes, that’s how it should be.
Surely…

* * *
The crowd buzzed with restless energy.
“Wow. This is insane even for today. What’s this line for?”
The Manager arrived a step behind schedule.
Before approaching the booth, he naturally assumed this queue had nothing to do with him.
“What games are near us again?”
“Well… mostly mobile games. Are they running some kind of event?”
“G-Star itself is an event. What other event would they be running?”
The Employee scratched his head in confusion.
But only for a moment.
He simply stopped caring.
“Either way, that booth won’t be doing much business today!”
“Tell me about it!”
Not our problem anyway!
The two walked toward their booth with cheerful laughter and light steps.
However, their amusement didn’t last long.
As they drew closer to the booth, they began to sense something increasingly ominous.
“Um… Manager. This feels like…”
The words left unspoken became reality—the line seemed to extend all the way to our booth!
The moment the Hitman booth entrance came into view.
“!”
“!?”
Stunned, the two froze in their tracks.
The long, serpentine queue had its head severed right at the entrance to the Hitman booth.

* * *
The Hitman booth was packed with unexpected visitors from the morning.
The Manager squeezed his way inside and listened to the current situation.
“What!? They want a Challenge? But there are no points! What are they talking about?”
It was chaos from the moment he arrived.
“They said it’s fine if you don’t give points! They want it exactly like what Almond did!”
If there are no points, then why do a Challenge at all?
“Wait. If there are no points, then what exactly are they trying to do?”
“I’m not sure…”
The Employees could only scratch their heads as they watched them.
“Maybe they just want to play the game?”
“But we have demonstrations for that. They specifically asked for Challenge Mode.”
“That’s true…”
If they simply wanted to play the game, they wouldn’t have specifically asked to use the exact Challenge system from yesterday.
Some people even came and said precisely, “exactly what Almond did.”
Only then did the Manager understand.
Ding! A refreshing sound rang in his mind, and the stale hangover seemed to vanish completely.
“Ah! This is just that! That thing!”
That’s it! That was it! We picked the right advertising model!
Meanwhile, the Employee tilted his head in confusion.
“That thing…?”
Sigh.
The Manager thumped his chest in frustration.
“Viral marketing!”
It wasn’t a perfectly accurate description, but the overall picture was right.
This game had become famous because of the controversy surrounding Almond, and clearly these people had come to play because of that very controversy.
In summary, it was this.
“We hit the jackpot!”
Jackpot.

* * *
One could argue: if there’s controversy, why come to play the game at all?
The answer became clear enough by observing the people queuing near the streamers.
“Ah, yes. I came to challenge that controversial game by Almond. But, uh, it seems there’s an issue now….”
The streamers had come because there was inherent value in playing a game surrounded by controversy and attention.
That was the first reason.
“…Almond drained all the Challenge Points! So I can’t actually earn Challenge Points! But apparently, I can still attempt the challenge even without earning points? I’m here to verify whether I can actually obtain those points. Let me give it a try.”
The second reason was a kind of “verification.”
What level was Almond’s performance really at? Was it truly worth those points? Honestly, from a viewer’s perspective, it’s hard to gauge.
Aside from the 4.1km snipe, there wasn’t a single moment that made the difficulty truly sink in.
Perhaps that’s why the Community had these reactions:
[Is that really such an amazing play???]
“No, they just collapse when you shoot them, so what elite agents are they lol”
That game is just a joke, and Almond found the honey well lol
[RunGuys rank 1 looks harder]
Some streamers had come to verify this as content.
The employees were shocked when they learned this fact.
“Wow… they really came because of that controversy!”
“And they think it looks easy!?”
“Whoa… they’re going to attempt what Almond did?”
It was naturally absurd to them.
Before Almond came, this game had the highest point defense rate among all booths.
Yet this was the reaction they got.
Broadcasting and media really are terrifying. It just looks easy when you watch it.
…While they were thinking such things.
“But won’t everyone acknowledge it soon?”
The Manager pointed to the team that had entered the Capsule first.
Hisssss.
Three of the four Capsules were already eliminated, their lids opening.
“Ugh! Seriously! What a waste!”
“Sigh. What is this? Do I just die if I fail the mission?”
“Huh? I only got 50 points…? Isn’t this a bug?”
Three people emerged, lamenting as if deeply disappointed.
The funny part was that two of them hadn’t even been assigned the regular operative difficulty—let alone elite operative.
The difficulty they received was “Trainee.”
Just one level above “Civilian,” the most basic beginner stage—a lower-intermediate difficulty.
So essentially, they had been filtered out from the tutorial itself.
“Well… that’s about average, right?”
“That’s right.”
It wasn’t that they performed poorly; this was simply the average skill level the game developers had intended.
“Well, there’s still someone actually going at it.”
Of the four capsules, only one remained occupied.
That person had steadily progressed through the infiltration mission and even into the subsequent sniper mission that followed.
“Hmm. Yeah. That guy will last a while. But it’s Trainee difficulty anyway.”
“Ah… right.”
Unfortunately, no matter how well he performed, surpassing Almond was impossible.
His difficulty had been set to ‘Trainee’ after all.
On top of that, he failed spectacularly during the sniper mission.
He’d been too greedy with distance.
He could have survived after the failure, but he couldn’t handle the incoming enemy agents and became a pincushion.
Hisssss…!
After the capsule opened, he clutched his face in regret.
“Ah…! I was almost there.”
Pfft.
The employees had to suppress their laughter at his words.
I mean, the difficulty assignment itself was completely different—what did he mean he was almost there?
Even at that difficulty level, he hadn’t reached where Almond had gone.
However, the employees didn’t need to go out of their way to explain to him that he was terrible at games.
The machine would handle that.
Ding!
[Points Earned: 170]
Once the point calculation finished, he would understand on his own.
170 points.
Compared to the 8,100 points Almond had earned, it was absurdly meager.
“Wait. Is this a bug? Does this make sense?”
He approached the employees with his camera pointed at them. He must be a streamer.
“No, I killed several enemies. Why am I only getting 170 points? Almond was getting 10 points per enemy!?”
This game’s difficulty wasn’t displayed intuitively to players, so it was easy to misunderstand.
“Your difficulty was ‘Trainee,’ Challenger. Almond’s was ‘Elite Agent’ difficulty.”
“…Excuse me?”
Another problem was that most people who came here didn’t even know this game had difficulty levels.
People would just rush in to challenge it without properly watching the videos uploaded to Almond’s channel.
“Difficulty? There’s such a thing?”
“Yes. It’s determined during the initial tutorial based on shooting method, shot accuracy, reaction speed, and things like that.”
“…Ah. Besides the difficulty I got, what else is there?”
“Civilian, Trainee, Professional, Agent, and Elite Agent in order.”
“Ah… Trainee was… the easy version.”
The streamer realized his difficulty was merely the second-easiest version, and his expression turned gloomy.
His broadcast chat filled with messages mocking him.
Lol, I was making a big fuss over a difficulty level that’s basically a joke.
-Hahaha… Sook-yeon…
Ugh, I could tell from the moment you started talking ㅉㅉ
-Almond, here comes another one~!
There was no way that was happening lol
Many came to challenge my record like this.
But without exception, they all failed to even reach that difficulty level and left.
They always shoved cameras in the employees’ faces and asked questions.
After hearing the explanation, they left with the same disappointed expression.
This repeated nearly dozens of times.
“Wow… Damn it. There are seriously so many people.”
“And they all ask the same thing. Is this place hell or something?”
The employees responding to them were losing energy by the minute.

* * *
By the time a truckload of dejected Streamers and Challengers had come and gone like this,
“Wait. How do you recruit Elite Operatives? What are the conditions?”
When such questions came, the employee could only answer in a mechanical voice.
“The first two~ that appear~ die~ in the head~ bang bang~ everyone dies~ and the next three~ die~ obviously in the head~ bang bang~ just remember this~ on the first try~ in the head~”
You could feel from the lifeless, exhausted tone just how many times this had been repeated.
-Hahahahaha, just record it
“No, did you memorize it through a song? ㅋㅋㅋ”
Soulless leftists lol
All the Streamers who heard the drooping requiem wore expressions of disbelief.
“You’re saying I have to headshot all the Enemies that appear first on my first try? That’s too hard?”
In a new game, it’s normal that your true skill doesn’t show.
Yet suddenly I have to headshot every Enemy that appears first, without wasting a single bullet, all on the first try?
It was an impossibly difficult condition.
“That’s way too hard!”
“That’s right~ Elite Operatives~ is~ a special~ difficulty~ originally~ damn~ hard~ it’s hard~ it’s difficult! Ugh~ it’s hard!”
It is hard. After all, the Elite Operative level was that kind of difficulty—who could blame it?
The employee gave the same answer countless times to the Streamers complaining that it didn’t make sense.
“If you can’t~ do that much~ then Elite Operatives~ challenge~ is pointless~ no way~ hey hey back off~ back off~”
Haha, damn it lol
Isn’t this supposed to be melting? lol
That’s totally out of the question lolololol
Back off, what are you doing? lol
-He’s about to start throwing salt next
I’m dying laughing ㅋㅋㅋ
The Streamers seemed offended by the soulless response.
-….
But what could I do about it?
I couldn’t even play the game!
“Sigh.”
There was nothing left to do but turn back.
After all, up to this very moment, no one had managed to reach even the difficulty level that Almond had conquered.
This fact was bound to become a hot topic in the Community once again.
[Breaking news) Those guys who said they’d go verify it ㅋㅋㅋ can’t even achieve the difficulty level that Almond did ㅋㅋㅋ]

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